E-commerce tutorials & guides

Your PrestaShop shop email shows up in order alerts, customer messages, and the address shoppers see on the store. Changing it is rarely one field – Mail Alerts, the store record, contact form recipients, and theme modules can each hold a different address. This guide walks through those places in the order that usually fixes the wrong inbox first.

If you have multiple languages installed in your shop, then all URLs will include language code. And even when you open the home page of your site you’ll get that language suffix, even for default language. It doesn’t look fine but fortunately you can fix this behavior.

This tutorial describes how to remove default language code from your URLs (usually “/en”).

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It’s really simple, you can do it in your Back Office.
This tutorial is relevant for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6. There is no such functionality in PS 1.7 by default.
Here’s what you need to do:

Continue reading How to enable or disable product comparison in PrestaShop

Sometimes during the work on the site you may want to make it temporarily inaccessible for visitors. In PrestaShop you can use maintenance mode for such purposes.
It may be useful during initial website development or while updating etc.

This article describes how to enable maintenance mode.

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Sometimes you may need to clear the cache of your PrestaShop website. Basically, it’s necessary when you’ve made some changes to your site, but they are not displayed.

This article describes how to clear Smarty Cache and all other cache types.

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If you are using SMTP in your shop email configuration, then you could encounter the following problem – you are not getting e-mail notifications about new messages from contact form. And all other mails are sending fine.

Continue reading Fix PrestaShop contact form not sending mails.

You can easily reset your admin password if you forgot it. There are two main ways.

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You can hide your suppliers and manufacturers data from your site. Maybe you do not want to show them to everyone, maybe you just don’t use these features – so let’s hide them.

Continue reading How to remove pages of suppliers and manufacturers in PrestaShop

You should always have a backup.

Your shop could be damaged by everything – malware infection, crazy developers, hosting problems etc. But if you have an up-to-date backup, then you are safe.

Continue reading How to create a backup in PrestaShop

How to access module settings page? Just open Back Office and choose “Modules” in the main menu.

It may look a bit different in different PrestaShop versions.

For example, in PrestaShop 1.6 it looks this way:

Continue reading How to configure PrestaShop module